Astronomy 112 Links

Useful General Links

http://www.mathportal.org/calculators.php/

Math portal

http://www.webnucleo.org/home/online_tools/polytrope/0.8/

Polytrope calculator

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Astronomy Picture of the Day

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html

Astrophysical Data Syetem - online journal search

http://xxx.lanl.gov/archive/astro-ph

Astrophysical preprint server

Lecture Specific Links

http://www.phy.ohiou.edu/~mboett/astro401_fall12/saha.pdf

Derive Saha equation from Boltzmann

http://www.spms.ntu.edu.sg/PAP/courseware/statmech.pdf

Statistical mechanics and the partition function

Lodders et al (2003) -

Standard solar abundances - Lodders (2003)

Lodders et al (2009) -

Standard solar abundances - Lodders (2009)

http://physics.indiana.edu/~shylee/p672/EM_scattering_1.pdf

Electron scattering - Thomson and Klein Nishine

Stellar opacity -

Frank Shu's discussion of stellar opacities

Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis

http://bifrost.cwru.edu/personal/collins/astrobook/

Nice web-based textbook on stellar astrophysics

http://mesa.sourceforge.net/

The MESA stellar evolution code

http://cococubed.asu.edu/code_pages/codes.shtml/

Frank Timmes compilation of useful subroutines and physics

http://opalopacity.llnl.gov

OPAL opacity tables and code

http://obswww.unige.ch/~mowlavi/evol/stev_database.html

Geneva grid of model stars

http://www.lcse.umn.edu/MOVIES/

Movies of numerical simulation of stellar convection

http://http://2sn.org/stellarevolution/

Some models from Heger and Woosley

Nuclear Astrophysics and Abundances

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nuclear/liqdrop.html/

Brief overview liquid drop model

http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/chart/

Periodic chart of the isotopes

http://www.jinaweb.org/

Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics

http://t2.lanl.gov/data/astro/molnix96/massd.html/

Nuclear binding energies

http://www.jinaweb.org/html/Rasdata.html/

Tables of reaction rates

http://t2.lanl.gov/data/qtool.html/

Reaction rate thresholds

http://adg.llnl.gov/Research/RRSN/

Nuclear astrophysics data - LLNL site

http://earthref.org/cgi-bin/err.cgi?n=1

Anders and Grevesse (1989) tables

http://www-pat.llnl.gov/Research/RRSNsol/sol.html/

Solar/Population I (AG89) Abundances

http://particleadventure.org/

Particle physics tutorial

http://ie.lbl.gov/astro.html

LBNL Nuclear astrophysics data archive

http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/masses/mass.mas03

2003 Atomic Mass Evaluation

http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/masses/index.html

Q-value calculator

http://csnwww.in2p3.fr/amdc/amdc_en.html

ORSAY (1995) Atmoic Mass Data Center

http://www.phy.ornl.gov/astrophysics/data/data.html

Tabulation of the Caughlan and Fowler (1988) rates

http://pntpm.ulb.ac.be/nacre.htm

The more recent NACRE tabulation of rates for astrophysics

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/index.html

The NIST repository of fundamental physics constants

http://www.tunl.duke.edu/NuclData/

The TUNL nuclear data evaluation project (A = 3 - 20)

http://isotopes.lbl.gov/

The LBNL isotopes project

http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/

The National Nuclear Data Center

http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/wallet/

Nuclear Data Cards - a wallet sized summary of nuclear information

http://t2.lanl.gov/tour/helium.html

Nuclear physics of helium burning - Hale (1997)

Supernovae in general

http://www.supersci.org

UCSC SciDAC Supernova Science Center

http://www.phy.ornl.gov/tsi/

ORNL SciDAC Terascale Supernova Initiative

http://rsd-www.nrl.navy.mil/7212/montes/sne.html

Master link to supernovae and supernova remnants

http://www.astrophysics.arizona.edu/movies.html

mpeg movies of the presupernova eveolution and explosion mechanism

http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/Hydro/hydro.html

More supernova models

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/lists/RecentSupernovae.html

List of recent supernova with links to IAU circulars

http://legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/snr.html

Goddard supernova pages - a few movies

http://www.aerith.net/pictures/nova.html
http://www.kopernik.org/spaceimages/index.asp

Lots of discovery images of novae and supernovae

http://merlino.pd.astro.it/~supern/snean.txt

A complete list of all supernovae discovered so far

http://merlino.pd.astro.it/~supern/spectra.html

Supernova spectra

Neutron Stars and Pulsars

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~pulsar/psr/Tutorial/tut/tut.html

A tutorial on pulsars

http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/animations/pulsar.html

Animations and video - supernovae and pulsars

http://chandra.harvard.edu/xray_sources/pulsar_java.html

Movie of an x-ray pulsar

http://chandra.harvard.edu/xray_sources/supernovas.html

X-Ray astronomy field guide to supernovae

Novae, Type Ia supernovae

http://www.flash.uchicago.edu/research/science.html

x-ray bursts, novae, and Type Ia supernovae

http://www-supernova.lbl.gov/public/figures/snvideo.html

A nice supernova movie on the Lawerence Berkeley Labs website

Gamma Ray Bursts

http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~jcg/grbgen.html

Information on bursts with couterparts Links to all sorts of gamma-ray burst sites

http://www.batse.msfc.nasa.gov/batse/

GRB skymap - updated every month, also light curves of the most recent bursts

http://www.astro.ku.dk/~holger/ddirGAMMA/dF/OFSAT.html

Orbiting and future GRB satellites

http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn/gcn3_archive.html

More observational data than you ever wanted about GRBs (the equivalent to the IAU Circ)

http://www.ucolick.org/~andrew/

Models for gamma-ray bursts

http://space.mit.edu/HETE/mission_status.html

HETE Status and observations